After harvesting the first flush, clean up all the withered pinheads and debris on the surface of the block.

Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

a Morrisian utopia

He refused to drive the shark-finned automobile.